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Showerthoughts

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A "Showerthought" is a simple term used to describe the thoughts that pop into your head while you're doing everyday things like taking a shower, driving, or just daydreaming. The most popular seem to be lighthearted, clever little truths, hidden in daily life.

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[–] [email protected] 3 points 18 hours ago

Time to name my llm experiment Jeeves

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I don’t know your reasoning for this but I agree regardless

[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Some one has to speak up for Jeeves. After all, he served me some of the first boobs I've ever saw.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So how were Jeeves boobs? Nice?

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 day ago* (last edited 21 hours ago) (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago

Okay, but what about you?

~/s~

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Meh, power corrupts.

It would just be a different color scheme.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You might say capitalism necessitates corruption

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Capitalism is a deeply flawed system. But it was our flaws that infected it.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I was working tech support at my university when all these search engines first started appearing. It was also the era of aggressive typo squatting domains.

AskJeebes dot com was a hardcore porn site.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago

The first company to sell their soul to mammon was going to win the search engine wars.

If it hadn't been googie it would have been whoever inked the first contract.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Jeeves, why would the world be a different place if Ask Jeeves won the search engine wars?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 day ago (1 children)

"Just Jeeves it" doesn't quite roll off the tongue...

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 day ago

Well no......it would have been "Just Ask Jeeves".

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago

Indubitably!

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago

My heart will always host Altavista but... we'd have JVS.IT url shortner for sure

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

"I prefer jovial" would've become the goto rainbow capitalist phrase

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

Does ai have a place in the ask Jeeves search engine?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 day ago